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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/356086.html
The Price of Releasing Prisoners: The Jerusalem Cafe Hillel Bombing
(Ha'aretz) - Ze'ev Dasberg Not long ago, the Israeli government released 350 Palestinian prisoners as a good-will gesture to the government of Mahmoud Abbas. A few weeks later, two of the former prisoners, from the village of Rantis in Samaria, under the command of a third former prisoner, perpetrated the suicide bombing attacks on Cafe Hillel in Jerusalem and at the Tzrifin army base, in which 15 civilians and soldiers were killed and many others were wounded.